It must be Hell being a trump surrogate. The panels on CNN and MSNBC
usually have a couple of news people and the surrogate.
For example, on the CNN panel tonight she was asked about trump's embarrassing reaction to Brexit .
The surrogate's job is to make completely ridiculous statements and try to change the subject, while the other panel members try not to laugh outloud.
The surrogate has to talk fast, so no one interrupts her with a slew of pesky facts.
One gets the feeling that the surrogates consider the night a success if they can keep the other panelists from speaking by making every response a monologue.
And when one of the other panelists starts to talk the surrogate has to immediately and continuosly interrupt them.
President Obama:
"If we use the term "radical Islam" to define this kind of terrorism, we will be less safe because American Muslims will think we are talking about them."
Really?
I remember when the Irish Republican Army was committing terrorist acts, they were called North Ireland terrorists, Irish Catholic terrorists and just plain Irish terrorists.
We all know lots of Irish people, and not one of them objected to those terms because most Irish people opposed terrorism.
Why is it different with muslims?
Could it be ISLAM ?
I'm Starting to understand the attitude of the wildly misinformed anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. I’d be anti-Israel too if I believed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ slanderous statements about the Jewish state, especially regarding the conduct of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
If I heard, for example, that Israel bombed “hospitals” during the 2014 Israel-Gaza War, as Sanders claimed during a recent interview, then I might believe the IDF is a morally depraved military that murdered innocent patients in cold blood.
Never mind that the only strike on a hospital during the war was when the IDF surgically bombed a wing of Gaza’s empty Al-Wafa Hospital, with the Israeli army saying the building was being used as a Hamas terrorist command center and a launching site for rockets. No casualties were reported in the bombing, and Israel first fired numerous warning shots and spent days ensuring that the building was entirely evacuated. Sanders has not said a word about Hamas’ criminal use of hospital patients as human shields.
Still, if I believed Sanders’ rhetoric that Israel indiscriminately leveled whole Palestinian apartment buildings, I too would likely view the IDF as a human rights violator. “My understanding is that a whole lot of apartment houses were leveled,” Sanders claimed to the New York Daily News two weeks ago.
This was the same interview in which the socialist presidential candidate trumped Hamas’ own anti-Israel propaganda by falsely claiming that the IDF killed “over 10,000 innocent people” during the 2014 Gaza War.
Who would not be outraged by a country that allegedly killed over 10,000 innocent people?
Let’s put aside that both Israel and Hamas placed the number of dead well below 2,500 and that Israel says 1,408 of 2,203 Palestinians killed in the war were militants. Let’s ignore for the moment that the Palestinians – who use civilians as human shields – have a long and sordid history of wrongly claiming that innocents were massacred only to later have their lies publicly exposed.
Still, if I believed Sanders’ rhetoric that Israel indiscriminately leveled whole Palestinian apartment buildings, I too would likely view the IDF as a human rights violator. “My understanding is that a whole lot of apartment houses were leveled,” Sanders claimed to the New York Daily News two weeks ago.
This was the same interview in which the socialist presidential candidate trumped Hamas’ own anti-Israel propaganda by falsely claiming that the IDF killed “over 10,000 innocent people” during the 2014 Gaza War.
Who would not be outraged by a country that allegedly killed over 10,000 innocent people?
Let’s put aside that both Israel and Hamas placed the number of dead well below 2,500 and that Israel says 1,408 of 2,203 Palestinians killed in the war were militants. Let’s ignore for the moment that the Palestinians – who use civilians as human shields – have a long and sordid history of wrongly claiming that innocents were massacred only to later have their lies publicly exposed.
(Does anyone remember the Jenin “massacre” of April, 2002? Palestinian officials at first claimed 500 civilians were butchered by Israeli forces and thousands were wounded. They immediately upped the number to thousands of civilians killed, saying scores were buried in mass graves. But it was later independently determined that 56 Palestinians, mostly gunmen, were killed, and 23 Israeli soldiers died in the battle to ferret out terrorists in Jenin, with IDF troops putting their lives at risk by going house-to-house in many cases so as to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties.
usually have a couple of news people and the surrogate. 
